When Carl D’Silva moved into his Edgewater Glen home, he noticed a space in his living room that needed to be filled.
“It was either going to be a 600-gallon fish tank or a bookshelf!” he says jokingly. The latter, more attainable idea won out.
A vice president and principal architect at JAHN Architecture who has worked on a variety of buildings around the world (airport terminals in Bangkok and Chicago, office towers in Tokyo, the Sony Center in Berlin), D’Silva doesn’t shy away from design challenges. Though he’d built only one other piece of furniture — a TV stand — 15 years prior, his custom plywood bookcase is exceptionally done.
“It’s a variation of the standard egg crate grid, with some of the wood strips (able to) slide in and out, allowing for multiple configurations of cell shapes and sizes,” he says.
The Danish mid-century-reminiscent shelf is the perfect place for his architecture books and design tomes.